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Languages don't create bug, people create bugs and there will always be bugs. Instead of looking for the new hotness just study your chosen language more, carefully research your problem, spend more time designing your system to be fault more tolerant and test the system to find the bugs you do have. If we're talking only about languages introducing bugs it's best to have a mature language that works best for your problem and that you are proficient at.


>Languages don't create bug

No but they allow certain classes of bugs to be written.

>people create bugs and there will always be bugs.

To true, but I take that to a completely different place. Some languages require super human amounts effort to avoid bugs that are easily machine checkable, or the language could offer tools that don't even make such situations possible. Picking a safer language allows you to spend some of your bug avoidance effort in a more profitable way.


> >Languages don't create bug

> No but they allow certain classes of bugs to be written.

True. And, for some categories of bugs, there are other languages that do not allow those categories of bugs to be written. But be careful not to read too much into that. Those languages may also allow other categories of bugs to be written, or to be written more easily.

Do not assume that avoiding the previous generation of bugs means that your code is safe.


What all languages have you worked with?


Whenever I read something like this I feel really bad and turn off my ad blocker, as soon as I do that I'm usually greeted with 2 minute long unskippable ads, sites re-skinned with ads, targeted ads, ads that are just straight up spam, ads that play in the background and ads that require me to fill out a survey. I want to support these websites but online ads don't pay nearly as much as TV, radio or print ads but that are 10 times more annoy, detrimental to my privacy and if I ever click on them I know their almost certainly going to be some sort of phishing scam or virus from eastern Europe. You know it sucks that people are blocking ads but online ads are the absolute worst, if online ads functioned and payed as much as print advertisements than I don't think anyone would have a problem with seeing ads but we all know they don't. Only thing I can recommend is that these sites change their business model or at least augment it with a mixture of merch, internet begging (patreon), premium memberships and being more choosy with what ad networks they choose to partner with.


Good, Vox and BuzzFeed are terrible publications and nobody wants them at SXSW.


Spoiler: there aren't any. It's something hipsters, wannabe be mathematicians and idiots that haven't done any real programming like to circle jerk over. If you thought well designed classes were hard to understand and bloated than just wait until it's condensed into an ugly, undocumented, confusing set of alien hieroglyphics that denote instructions for a theoretical machine that doesn't resemble how modern computers actually work.


Check your privilege


Microsoft should advertise their next system to the audience they have and not the audience they want. They should start by calling the system the xbox 420 instead of the xbox 720.


I almost thought this was a joke at first; kind of wish it was.


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